[SunHELP] Restricting the user on a FTP session

[Ravi Katti]

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Naresh Narang <nareshnarang at 123india.com>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Restricting the user on a FTP session
Date: 22 Dec 2000 09:32:15 -0800

Swamy:

       The "root" of anonymous ftp user should be set to somthing like 
/ftp/anonymous/ where you have all your public, bin etc. dir so s/he can't 
do a ".." on "root".

NKN

 >
 >
 > Swamy CNN at SATYAM
 > 12/22/2000 01:33 PM
 >
 > Hi all,
 >      I'm trying to set up a ftp user with the minimum permission, so that 
he can
 > login his home directory and get all his files only. Since the default
 > permissions on his directory ".."(double dot) will be normally 755, he 
can do a
 > "cd .." and go back upto "/" and read out all my file system. I tried 
changing
 > the permissions on "..", which effects permissions on parent directory, 
and my
 > parent directory has different combinations of file permissions set under 
it.
 > So, how do i restrict this ftp user with out affecting my file system.
 >
 > swamy.
 >
 >
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-- Naresh
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